Mitchell v. Vulture Mining & Milling Co.

Dissenting opinions are generally a waste of time by the dissenting judge and a waste of space in the reports, for they cannot immediately affect the laAV as declared by the majority. But where the principle involved is one of importance and the rule laid down by the majority appears to be both unsound and contrary to that previously followed by the court, there is always a possibility, faint though it may seem at the time, that in a later case there may be a return to correct general principles, and that a dissenting opinion may add, in some small degree, to that most desirable result.

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